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Any Wednesday (play)

Any Wednesday is a 1964 American stage play by Muriel Resnik. It ran for 983 performances from 1964 to 1966, making it one of the most successful comedies on Broadway in the 1960s,[1] and was turned into a feature film of the same name in 1966.

Any Wednesday

Henry Kaplan

February 18, 1964 (1964-02-18)

Music Box Theatre, New York

English

sex comedy

A garden apartment in the East Sixties, Manhattan. July.

The play was a great personal triumph for its star, Sandy Dennis, who won a Tony Award for her performance. (William Goldman called it "one of the personal triumphs of the decade."[2])


It was also an early success in the career of Gene Hackman.[3][4]


The show had a tortured history. The script began as a short piece for the Actors Studio to use for practice purposes before being expanded. It went through four different directors and star Michael Rennie left the cast, being replaced at short notice by Don Porter.[5]


Amanda Barrie played the lead role in the London production which was less successful.[6]

as Ellen Gordon

Sandy Dennis

as John Cleves

Don Porter

as Cass Henderson

Gene Hackman

as Dorothy Cleves

Rosemary Murphy

Goldman (1984). . Limelight Editions.

The Season: a candid look at Broadway

Resnick, Muriel (1965). .

Son of Any Wednesday

at Playbill

Any Wednesday

at Internet Archive

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